OXHYDROELECTRIC EFFECT: PROCEDURE AND APPARATUS TO EXTRACT ELECTRIC

ENERGY FROM WATER _ ITALIAN PATENT ASSIGNED TO PROMETE SRL ON 11TH

NOVEMBER 2014, WITH REGISTRATION N. 1411927
(PROCEDIMENTO ED APPARATO PER LESTRAZIONE DI ENERGIA ELETTRICA DALLACQUA)

INVENTORS: ROBERTO GERMANO, VITTORIO ELIA.

PROMETE Srl is a spin-off company of the Italian National Institute
for the Physics of Matter (INFM, CNR National Research Council)
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Research and Development in the Field of Experimental Physics.
In PROMETE we found a new experimental phenomenon that we call Oxhydroelectric Effect,
which confirms that this approach can lead to identify entirely new experimental facts, with
possible applications of technical and industrial interest, based on very simple technologies.
The Oxhydroelectric Effect consists in the extraction of an electric current from bi-distilled
water, using two identical platinum electrodes, where the current is fed from the simple
environmental heat, and mediated by oxygen molecules. This is something that any normal
middle school student knows that is completely impossible! Since, however, the effect is there, it
is clear that it could represent the scientific basis for a possible technological breakthrough to new
systems of electricity generation, environmentally friendly, non-centralized, and low-cost; to new
catalytic systems for use in the chemical industry; to fuel cells of much greater efficiency, etc...
R. Germano et al., Oxhydroelectric Effect: Electricity from Water by Twin Electrodes, Key Engineering
Materials, 495, 100-103 (2012)
R. Germano et al., Oxhydroelectric Effect in bi-distilled water, Key Engineering Materials, 543, 455-459
(2013).

Recently we obtained the following advancements:

A NEW home made, and cheap, STRONGLY HYDROPHILIC POLYMER (substituting NAFION)
Electric current extraction lasting for months (only mechanical polymer limits)
NO MORE DECAYING
Cheap Electrodes (NO MORE PLATINUM)
NO more Micrometer Filter is necessary
Working also without H2O2 - but very sensitive (fast answer) to LIGHT (expecially infrared)
POTENTIAL PRODUCTS_ It's clear that the object of the patent on the OXHYDROELECTRIC EFFECT
in double-distilled water, PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR THE EXTRACTION OF ELECTRICITY FROM
WATER, can be transformed to a real "breakthrough" technology. The phenomenon needs of
course further research to arrive at a "proof of principle", and then the technological challenge will
mainly consist in the identification of at least one specific application-system on which
optimization and engineering to work, and soon after in the scale-up of such a system. We
mention only a few of these specific applications easily conceivable already now:
New Photovoltaic Systems working thanks to infrared radiation (environmental heat)
Higher efficiency Fuel Cells
Optimization of Reactions in Industrial Chemistry
Higher efficiency Reverse Electro Dialysis (RED) systems

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We believe, however, that the priority is to focus on the first point:

New Photovoltaic Systems working thanks to infrared radiation (environmental heat).
In fact, the steps to verify the technological applicability of Oxhydroelectric Effect for this specific
and breakthrough application are essential also for the other potential applications mentioned
above. Moreover, the hypothesis to pursue all these goals at the same time, seemed to us too
much ambitious, because there is unavoidably need of much man-time of the only few researchers
in the world already experts on these issues.
New "PV" Systems working thanks to infrared radiation (environmental heat)
The phenomenon of Oxhydroelectric Effect in bi-distilled water, i.e. without the presence of
electrolytes in significant amounts, opens the way - without any doubt - to a new class of
phenomena and possible energy applications. In the experiments conducted up to now, with 2
electrodes of platinum and at room temperature, an electrical power of the order of 0.2
microwatt is extracted, for many hours by bi-distilled water. So, although it is a totally new
phenomenon, it should be noted that electric powers not negligible are obtained immediately, i.e.
that do not represent only a pure "scientific curiosity", but that would already be able to feed, for
example, a RAM of new generation - cf.: Ujwala A. Belorkar, S. A. Ladhake "Layout Design of Static
RAM Memory using 45 nm VLSI Technology", Proc. of the Intl. Conf. on Computer Applications Telecommunications, Ed K. Hari Krishna, Research Publishing (2011). This obviously leaves hope in
the possibility to obtain a "proof of concept" on the possibility of using this effect in practice as a
new type of "solar cells" operating in the infrared, i.e. even in those conditions that our eyes are
considering "dark", and that on the contrary - under normal environmental conditions - is always
reach of infrared radiation. Needless to say, this may be a true technological revolution.

Key Person: Roberto Germano. Physicist. Founder and CEO of PROMETE Srl - CNR Spin off Company.
Author of numerous articles of experimental physics in international scientific journals (h-index = 5), and of
some patents for industrial inventions. Winner of the 2004 award "Roberto Marrama", a competition in
search of young entrepreneurial talents. Technology Transfer expert in the issue of the Ministry of
Economic Development. Author of the books "Cold Fusion, Modern history of inquisition and alchemy"
(Bibliopolis, 2000, second ed. 2003) - Preface by Giuliano Preparata and "AQUA, Electromagnetic Water and
its amazing adventures" (Bibliopolis, 2006 ) - Preface by Emilio Del Giudice, co-author of "Technology
Transfer" (Franco Angeli, 2010), and of the "Pocket Manual of Technology Transfer" (Il Denaro, 2010). He is
member of the Scientific Committee of the IC-MAST - the International Conference on Materials and
Applications for Sensors and Transducers, and Chairman of the Session: LECS, Low Energy Coherent
Systems.
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